Reflections on High Fidelity Prototype

At the end of the day, when the user gives you that smile, you know that you have nail it. (The great user experience!) It was a great challenge for able to accurately test the users for this product. It is for children, and some children usually want to agree with you rather than disagree, so they might just say " Yes Yes nice nice" but doesn't really have a comment on that. Therefore, I have to actually go more indepth to ask them what exactly is so nice about this webpage. One key thing to getting great insights from kids is getting ton know them first, their personality and character. If you are talking to an introvert, all you get is nodding of head. I actually speak to their parents to investigate how their responds could have been link to their personality, which could also affect the accurary of the test.

The older kids who are more expose to internet and have surf quite a few websites, beside those required by schools, are able to give better comments or rather more useful comments on the design and the functions.

One design element which we assumed and is proven true, (noone can get this wrong) they love bright colors, or anything that is colorful. They also prefer big text. They like more fancy text. We try to strike a balance between nice fonts and readable fonts. The page with big junk of text, we will cut down as much as possible and use text which are less fancy. The ones that require the child to key in, we allow more fanciful handwritten font, for that little touch of mischief.

We know we nail it, when the child says something like " you mean this is for real? I will love to use it !" or something like " huh .. I still want to play with it..."